tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post5980535305873138182..comments2024-03-14T19:14:03.059-05:00Comments on Acidemic - Film: Are You Lonesome, Automaton: Terminator and Halloween vs. HUGO / or Woman is the Father of HorrorErich Kuerstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-38391405293616356742012-03-19T08:55:54.533-05:002012-03-19T08:55:54.533-05:00Another interesting piece! Way to go.Another interesting piece! Way to go.Doug Brunellhttp://www.amazon.com/NOTHING-MEN-ebook/dp/B005NTW7IQnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-85995792263567340352012-03-16T12:34:35.886-05:002012-03-16T12:34:35.886-05:00A fascinating subject for a post, alternately insi...A fascinating subject for a post, alternately insightful, lyrical and personal; I can think of no higher praise than to quote some of my favorite lines: "there's an unspoken bourgeois law that says ahead-of-their-time 'underground' artists must lie buried for not less than one and ideally not more than seven decades" and “This is what non-family man artists do instead of having real human children of our own: we make them out of clay and wire and words and weird machinations of mechanical whimsy, hoping some version of ourselves in a future generation will come along and figure out what we were trying to say to our unborn grandson” (this last is especially poignant as I had never considered the parallel between the two “sparks of creation”). I would point out that Brian Selznick's original book has more in common with a graphic novel, and none of the romantic interests of the film. Perhaps we have exhausted our well of creativity regarding film and story and hence the look to the past for inspiration, but in the case of "Hugo" isn't this a bit like sending a bunny out amongst two Rottweilers (deus ex machine wise)?whistlingypsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06126688373252306609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-17218838425853887972012-03-13T09:14:33.343-05:002012-03-13T09:14:33.343-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-28243023421268369172012-03-13T09:14:02.018-05:002012-03-13T09:14:02.018-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com